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Do skewness and kurtosis uniquely determine type of distribution?

Inspired by this answer, I have following question: Is it enough to know just skewness and kurtosis in order to determine distribution that data comes from? Is there any theorem that implies this? ...
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Kurtosis/4th central moment in terms of mean and variance

Is it possible to express the kurtosis $\kappa$, or the 4th central moment $\mu_4$, of a random variable $X$ in terms of its mean $\mu = E(X)$ and variance $\sigma^2 = Var(X)$ only, without having to ...
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Exponential weighted moving skewness/kurtosis

There are well-known on-line formulas for computing exponentially weighted moving averages and standard deviations of a process $(x_n)_{n=0,1,2,\dots}$. For the mean, $\mu_n = (1-\alpha) \mu_{n-1} + ...