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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For SiH- (silicon monohydride anion)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001387 -0.005572 -0.012295 -0.003547 -0.009907 -0.010141 -0.011294 -0.123914 -0.124110 -0.018003 -0.032550 -0.005794 -0.054525 -0.043074 -0.006638 -0.057112 -0.044219
MP3=FULL         -0.009679   -0.024159                    
MP4=FULL   -0.005405     -0.009795       -0.124528     -0.005563 -0.055647   -0.006428 -0.058262  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.009552           -0.032524 -0.005378 -0.054424 -0.043242 -0.006192 -0.056984 -0.044324
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.009772           -0.033145 -0.005551 -0.055522 -0.044235 -0.006403 -0.058111 -0.045348
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ