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

For SiH2 (silicon dihydride)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
6-31G* 6-31+G** TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL           -0.108651 -0.111127
MP3=FULL -0.009834 -0.013316 -0.032932 -0.006056 -0.056172 -0.109031 -0.111511
MP4=FULL           -0.110861 -0.113352
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL -0.009625     -0.005892 -0.056006 -0.108543 -0.111020
CCSD(T)=FULL -0.009883     -0.006110 -0.057250 -0.110484 -0.112969
6-31G* 6-31+G** TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z