Ab initio calculations have been performed for F 2 , HCCH, H 2 O, HF, (HF) 2 , and (H 2 O) 2 , comparing certain electron pair correlation methods, or methods for doubly substituted configurations. In these model systems, the reweighting of substituted configurations that occurs beyond a second-order perturbative treatment of electron correlation can be partly built into the second-order analysis in a computationally trivial step. Specific means for doing this are explored, and they offer improvement in certain cases or else very little change. A consistent improvement in the correlation energy when judged against treatment with double substitution coupled cluster theory for the test species is obtained through one of these schemes.