Is linear regression the same thing as ordinary least squares in SPSS?

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user41000 picture user41000 · Nov 22, 2009 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I want to use a linear regression model, but I want to use ordinary least squares, which I think it is a type of linear regression. The software I use is SPSS. It only has linear regression, partial least squares and 2-stages least squares. I have no idea which one is ordinary least squares (OLS).

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Robert Jones picture Robert Jones · Nov 22, 2009

Yes, although 'linear regression' refers to any approach to model the relationship between one or more variables, OLS is the method used to find the simple linear regression of a set of data.

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