For , the delta method with gives
Thus the transformation stabilizes variance at large .
A Gaussian linear model for treats the transformed observations as having additive constant-variance errors and models as linear. A Poisson regression with square-root link retains the Poisson likelihood and models
The two procedures therefore have different likelihoods, fitted means, and constraints; transforming the response is not the same as transforming its conditional mean.
Fix an effective enumeration of register-machine programs. The th register machine is , and its domain
is the th recursively enumerable set. A many-one reduction is a total computable function satisfying . Rice theorem says that every nontrivial property depending only on the computed partial function, or equivalently on an r.e. set in its extensional form, has an undecidable index set.
There is no total equality algorithm: it would decide whether is empty by comparing it with a fixed index for the empty set, contradicting Rice's theorem.
There is no partial algorithm that halts exactly when either. Given , effectively construct an index whose machine enumerates nothing unless halts, after which it enumerates . Then
A semialgorithm for equality with a fixed empty index would enumerate the complement of the halting problem . Since is r.e., both it and its complement would then be r.e., making recursive, a contradiction.

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