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Specifically, it attempts to find a quadratic hypersurface that separates two classes of samples with maximum probability. However, the optimization problem derived directly was too difficult to solve. Therefore, a nonlinear transformation was introduced to change the quadratic function involved into a linear function. Through such processing, our optimization problem finally became a second-order cone programming problem, which was solved efficiently by an alternate iteration method. It should be pointed out that our method is both kernel-free and parameter-free, making it easy to use. In addition, the quadratic hypersurface obtained by our method was allowed to be any general form of quadratic hypersurface. It has better interpretability than the methods with the kernel function. Finally, in order to demonstrate the geometric interpretation of our QSMPM, five artificial datasets were implemented, including showing the ability to obtain a linear separating hyperplane. 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