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

For CHF2 (difluoromethyl radical)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000357 -0.005262 -0.005262 -0.003299 -0.009110 -0.009287 -0.010174 -0.055849 -0.056025 -0.016796 -0.068498 -0.050711 -0.006409 -0.039945 -0.089827 -0.007588 -0.045014 -0.091288 -0.007885 -0.047317
MP3=FULL         -0.008689   -0.030909                          
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000101 -0.001541 -0.001517 -0.000968 -0.002667 -0.002725 -0.002970 -0.015762 -0.015814 -0.004860 -0.019393 -0.014313 -0.001874 -0.011467   -0.002223 -0.012897   -0.002299 -0.013543
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.008724           -0.070383   -0.005913 -0.040099   -0.007082 -0.045522   -0.007372 -0.047996
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.008635         -0.016333 -0.069895 -0.052058 -0.005849 -0.039793 -0.091809 -0.007009 -0.045215   -0.007297 -0.047685
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.008726           -0.070386 -0.052283 -0.005913 -0.040109 -0.092500 -0.007083 -0.045536 -0.118196 -0.007373 -0.048010
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ