Is linear regression the same as regular square regression in SPSS?

Question

I want to do linear regression, but I want to use the usual minimum squares, which, I think, are a type of linear regression. The software I use is SPSS, and it only has linear regression, partial least squares and 2-stage least squares. I have no idea which one is the regular minimum squares (OLS)

Answer 1

Yes, although “linear regression” refers to any approach to modeling the relationship between one or more variables, OLS is the method used to search for simple linear regression of a dataset.