The _____ Method Minimizes the Distances from the Straight Line

The _____ method minimizes the distances from the straight line to all the points on a scatter diagram. It measures these distances by looking at the errors in predicting Y from X and minimizes the sum of the squared deviations between the actual values and the straight line predicted by the regression.

A) minimal squares
B) least squares
C) r-squared
D) regression sum of squares
E) residual sum of squares