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

For CH3NCO (methylisocyante)

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 -0.001151 -0.006891 -0.006891 -0.004893 -0.016356 -0.016900 -0.017652 -0.074967 -0.075399 -0.034215 -0.090570 -0.068583 -0.009705 -0.058330 -0.115613 -0.011335 -0.069262 -0.118069 -0.011762 -0.072153
MP3=FULL         -0.015957   -0.017288       -0.093747 -0.071265 -0.009088 -0.059649         -0.011146  
MP4=FULL   -0.006579     -0.015946       -0.078063   -0.094331   -0.009049 -0.059695   -0.010675 -0.071390      
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000347 -0.002053 -0.002053 -0.001458 -0.004835 -0.004992 -0.005217 -0.021360 -0.021490 -0.009909 -0.025952 -0.019564 -0.002877 -0.016922   -0.003361 -0.020008   -0.003486 -0.020828
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.015935           -0.094342   -0.009009 -0.059726   -0.010631 -0.071494      
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.015806         -0.034500 -0.093444 -0.071170 -0.008906 -0.059297   -0.010512 -0.071147   -0.010927 -0.074231
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.015945           -0.094237 -0.071554 -0.009012 -0.059744   -0.010636 -0.071524     -0.074649
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