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

For HNS- (Sulfur imide 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) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000381 -0.006851 -0.014557 -0.004170 -0.013860 -0.014031 -0.014913 -0.138824 -0.138974 -0.029142 -0.008805 -0.047386 -0.087924 -0.010223 -0.051870 -0.089024
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.012959           -0.007943 -0.046639   -0.009307 -0.051198  
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ