RETRACTED: Estimation of failure probability in water pipes network using statistical model

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the editor as it is a duplicate of a paper that has already been published in World Appl. Sci. J., 11 (2010) 1157–1163, “Estimation of Failure Probability in Water Pipes Network Using Statistical Model”, M.J. Fadaee and R. Tabatabaei. The authors have stated that they decided to withdraw it from World Applied Sciences Journal after its acceptance and instead submit it to Engineering Failure Analysis. However, their article was still published in World Applied Sciences Journal despite their request to the contrary. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly and confirm that the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.