Though the northernmost islands experience a bit of rain, September is largely dry, warm and sunny throughout the islands. High season in Hawaii doesn't start till mid-December, so September is still off-season for the Hawaii tourism industry and deals abound.
T-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are widely used statistical methods to compare group means. For example, the independent sample t-test enables you to compare annual personal income between rural and urban areas and examine the difference in the grade point average (GPA) between male and female students.
Typically, however, the one-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among at least three groups, since the two-group case can be covered by a t-test (Gosset, 1908). When there are only two means to compare, the t-test and the F-test are equivalent; the relation between ANOVA and t is given by F = t2.