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

For BH2- (boron dihydride 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 -0.000320 -0.001076 -0.001076 -0.001088 -0.004326 -0.004569 -0.004611 -0.016894 -0.016978 -0.004327 -0.015525 -0.001541 -0.011108 -0.024130 -0.001852 -0.013745 -0.024634
MP3=FULL         -0.004468   -0.004749                    
MP4=FULL   -0.001078     -0.004488       -0.018255     -0.001490 -0.011714   -0.001808 -0.014668  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.004441           -0.016755 -0.001458 -0.011578 -0.025778 -0.001768 -0.014544 -0.026344
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.004480           -0.016838 -0.001479 -0.011687 -0.025989 -0.001796 -0.014655 -0.026562
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