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.
While the t-test is used to compare the means between two groups, ANOVA is used to compare means between 3 or more groups. There are several varieties of ANOVA, such as one-factor (or one-way) ANOVA, two-factor (or two-way) ANOVA, and so on, and also repeated measures ANOVA.