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Brian Gough (maintainer of the Gnu Scientific Library) pointed me towards a document within the GSL version control repository that describes their derivation. The document pretty much answer's my question.
Hi Matus - I am not sure where the indices (i \neq j) come from in the combining everything section. Also, your decomposition of variance in the beginning is flawed (missing a square).