Selection of the model structure.

For model structure considered to represent the spatio-temporal structure of the total number of cases of rabies in dogs per Delegation in Tunisia between 2019 and 2021. The Deviance information criterion (DIC), the changes in DIC between models (ΔDIC) the Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC) and the logarithmic score (LS) were computed for comparison.