Is Linear Regression the same thing as Ordinary Least Squares Regression in SPSS ?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.