The limiting distribution of the maximum cumulative sum 1 of a sequence of independent random variables has been discussed recently by Erds-Kac 2 and Wald. 3 Erds and Kac treated the case where each random variables has zero mean, while Wald considered more general cases.
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Kai Lai Chung (1948) studied this question.