A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model
Least squares -- Congresses : State of the art in partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) : methodological extensions and applications in the social sciences and beyond / edited by Lăcrămioara Radomir [and five others]