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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2007;3(2):407–433. doi: 10.1021/ct600185a

Table 6.

Average functional rankings and standard deviations for the “top fifteen” functionals along with 6-31+G* and aug-cc-pVDZ basis sets.

6-31+G* Avg. Rank Std. Dev.
1 B1B95 10.7 11.9
2 B98 11.9 7.5
3 TPSSKCIS 13.6 8.4
4 TPSSTPSS 13.7 8.4
5 PBE1PBE 13.8 10.9
6 B3LYP 13.9 9.0
6 MPWB95 13.9 11.2
8 TPSS1KCIS 14.0 8.2
9 B3PW91 14.2 9.2
9 BB1K 14.2 12.4
11 MPW1KCIS 14.8 10.5
12 MPWPW91 15.8 5.6
13 PBEPW91 16.6 8.5
14 PBE1KCIS 16.7 9.2
15 MPWPBE 16.8 5.3
aug-cc-pVDZ
1 B98 10.1 8.8
2 B1B95 11.7 12.2
3 TPSS1KCIS 12.0 8.1
4 PBE1PBE 12.2 10.0
5 B3LYP 12.3 9.2
6 PBE1KCIS 12.8 10.9
7 TPSSTPSS 13.3 6.3
8 TPSSKCIS 13.6 7.6
9 B3PW91 13.8 9.0
10 MPWPW91 15.3 5.9
11 MPWPBE 15.7 6.7
12 MPW1KCIS 15.9 9.9
13 BB95 16.2 9.3
13 B1LYP 16.2 13.1
15 BB1K 16.7 13.8