The 4th National Conference on Methodological Advances in Research was conceived after two national research conferences and one International Conference on advanced research methodologies were held in Regions 7 and 8 in the Philippines in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2023 respectively. The conferences focused on fractal statistics, data mining and theory building, simulation and modeling, multivariate methods, and other research methods such as developmental, experimental, quantitative and qualitative.