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

For GeH3CH3 (methyl germane)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002048 -0.005533 -0.012210 -0.015395 -0.037412 -0.040185 -0.041171 -0.413780 -0.416809 -0.110727 -0.013959 -0.083963 -0.018120 -0.097497
MP3=FULL         -0.035732   -0.059664              
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.036610         -0.104594   -0.076008   -0.088448
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.037948           -0.013336 -0.078489 -0.017267 -0.071946
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ