Cast regression problem into classification problem
The statement in principle seems very vague, how can one state that there are better classification than regression algorithms?
With that said I would rephrase the statement to:
Sometime it is feasible to turn a regression into a classification problem due to for the problem itself, it makes sense to predict a range/bin instead of a continuous value.
When doing this we have to be careful since we are not facing a &quot;common&quot; classification problem but we have an ordinal classification problem in which we have a natural order from the new target (bins)
For reference check:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/493254/why-ordinal-target-in-classification-problems-needs-special-attention